Bmibaby

[owenkirk2005]

Ema - Edi

Just noticed some cutbacks on the EMA - EDI service, was booked to travel back on the 21.40 EDI-EMA service but noticed ive been moved to the 18.40! No email to confirm this with me, any advice on weather its possible to change to a alternative day with a late flight?

[bmibaby319]

Just go for it Welsh Guy, they will want all the help they can get!

[Kavs8]

Anybody now how Bmibaby are doing??

[fanrailuk]

Doing in what sense....money, routes, passenger figrues?!

PP

[FR-]

I would like to know when it will stop ema-belfast. The loads are very low most days. At what point will it say enough is enough? I mean ryanair do 3xbhd per day, and is almost giving seats away just to try and pull pax away from baby. I think its time to pull out off belfast from ema.

I think the Baby should look at places like Lisbon/Madrid

[INKJET]

FR I bet you would!!

Unfortunately the 140 pax booked on this mornings EMA-BFS (Sat) don't share your view, it is one of babys most roller coaster routes in terms of numbers!!

But your right Ryanair have dumped massive capacity onto this route and are giving tickets away most of the time, out of choice most would prefer to fly to BHD i suspect (if visiting Belfast)

I agree that MAD/LIS would be better but they take rather longer than a 40 min trip to BFS

They(baby)would be better doing EMA-DUB on a Friday and Sunday these flights are often expensive with FR from EMA but £50 cheaper from BHX why? because they have competition in BHX, i suspect that Ryanair would love to see baby off BFS and then hike the prices it's their MO

[BHX5DME]

BMIBaby to concenrate on growth in the Midlands

BMI boss predicts profit in two years - Travel Trade Gazette

[FR-]

Lol so defencsive. I think all flights are busy with it being bank holiday weekend. But the CAA stats says it all really, BFS down, BHD up.

DUB, dont be silly, who is going to even try and start a DUB from a Ryanair base.

I hope AHO does well from ema, are some of these seats sold to charters?

Good luck anyway

fr-

[Binder]

How are Baby doing?

Well I checked in at BHX at 0520 for 0700 departure on a Saturday morning recently. Baby check in was a mile long with only 3 bods on the desks.

Then the airport security queue was also 'round the block'. Upshot was I had to sprint to the gate and only just 'made it'.

An awful airport experience and awful website in complete contrast to a great flight and great crew!

Profitable in two years? That's a tall order!

Binder

[FR-]

I must admit the web site does need some work doing to it.

[handsfree]

The website certainly does have it's problems. Went to Nice last week. On booking the tickets I entered all the passports details. Checked later and all info was there. Came to book online and web said no passport details entered. Entered them and all was well. Came time to book online for return journey and once more faced with no passport details entered.
Not life threatening I know but a pain in the bum having to keep entering data that's already there.

[aidoair]

...the 140 pax booked on this mornings EMA-BFS (Sat) don't share your view, it is one of babys most roller coaster routes in terms of numbers!!

As for the EMA to BFS route, I agree the numbers are up and down on the route on a daily basis, some mornings the flight can be fully booked and others only around 50-60 people onboard. The same goes for the evening services, though from what I have seen at least on the EMA - BFS evening rotation, it seems to have higher loads than on the morning flights, at least on week days. I really hope baby keep at the route, as a regular on it, it's great to have a choice and for me and others the International airport is more convienient, just depending where you need to be and when. So far the flights are available 2 x daily bookable right the way up until march!

Also I have flown the EMA - BHD route a number of times and the loads on this seem to also fluctuate alot. Don't forget that FR aircraft have potentially another 20? seats to fill on this route and now at 3 x daily. With their sometimes low fares of £3-£5 relatively close to departure date and a heavier aircraft to operate on the route it can't be that much of a money maker for them ? As people have mentioned they just want the monopoly on the route now.

I must admit the web site does need some work doing to it.

I too agree on this, though since it's make over, it has had some tweaks to it here and there and seems to be a little better now at loading and at the search menu process.

Finally overall bmibaby must be getting on pretty well now. The Lufthansa/bmi group seem to feel positive about them and with the new managing director now more enthusiastic and positive about the airline, I bet we can expect to see some small expansion on routes at there current bases. Already recently mentioned was a planned increase on niche routes at their Manchester base and hopefully further expansion from EMA for next summer.

I do have to say their 737-500s are looking better inside and out with there new larger titles. As for some of the 737-300s they could do with a spruce up here and there. Maybe similar to Jet2 or just a good old clean!

[toledoashley]

Twitter Q&A's

Just a few highlights from the T.witter Q&A session with the new MD:

1) Planning on developing existing bases of EMA, BHX, MAN, CWL. New routes planned, but only MAN confirmed for new routes. Will be launched soon.
2) Summer 2011 is just being finalised. Hinted that MAN - LIS and FAO will stay.
3) No plan for moves into the South East
4) No plan to change the fleet at the moment, but have hinted that new aircraft will be needed in the future.
5) Plan more intergration with bmi, and possible with LH.
6) Looking to develop Customer Service, possible with T.witter feed (a la easyjet / bmi)

[11K-AVML]

Looking to develop Customer Service, possible with PPRuNe feed (a la easyjet)

As long as it's nothing like the bmi t_wtt_er feed...that thing is dreadful!

- Never knew that if you type the name of T-WI-T-T_ER the word gets changed to PPRuNe

[toledoashley]

How strange!

[INKJET]

baby 2011 Summer program now on sale

NOT AN ADVERT

Birmingham to:
Nice
Faro
Alicante
Geneva
Murcia
Palma

Cardiff to:
Munich
Alicante
Malaga
Faro
Mahon
Palma
Geneva
Murcia

East Midlands to:

Cologne
Munich
Venice
Nice
Alicante
Faro
Malaga
Prague
Barcelona
Malta
Mahon
Alghero
Geneva
Palma
Almeria

Manchester from:
Prague
Bordeaux
Perpignan
Geneva
Toulouse
Lisbon
Lourdes


Good new for all the baby peeps, who don't have the worry of another Xmas "under threat", not checked details so some maybe Winter or Summer

Domestic's to be added in next phase

[Nakata77]

BOH-JER

BOH-JER finishes 28th Jun, barely two months after it started.

Trying to compete with 8 daily flights from SOU (flybe and Blueislands) is rather pathetic with 3 flights a week on a 737 - with fares often more expensive than those at SOU! D'ER!

Load factors on BOH-JER averaged 36% in May.

[Facelookbovvered]

It twas a daft idea in first place (JER-BOH) they would have been far better doing a W with CWL and use the CWL for something else, but hey ho they had a go, i am sure the crew wont lose any sleep over it

[scott737]

baby 2011 timetable

Inkjet-

Presumably more flights other than domestics are still to be added? For instance, I see that BHX-AMS and EMA-AMS and EMA-CDG do not appear on the list.

Does anyone know if this is just perhaps more than just domestics are still to come?

Scott

[OliWW]

EMA-AMS
EMA-CDG

Will defently be back and will be on sale in the next few weeks... MAN-AMS I am not sure about, but highly likely to be back I'd have thought, pax numbers have been fair on those flights

EMA-DUS is one possibility for a futre route for Summer 2011, I know this is now under discussion with the release of EMA-CGN and MUC and also Naples is another possible route for S11 from EMA